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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)"”.
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"Black and White Together, We Shall Win": Southern White Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
<p>During the Civil Rights Movement, Mississippi has often been characterized as a simple battle of white racists against black activists. Drawing heavily on oral histories, personal publications, and Mississippi Sovereignty Commission reports, this thesis examines the unconventional stories of …
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From Hate Crimes to Activism: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in the Texas Anti-Violence Movement
This study combines the methodologies of political and grassroots social history to explain the unique set of conditions that led to the passage of the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act in Texas. In 2001, the socially conservative Texas Legislature passed and equally conservative Republican Governor …
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Black Business as Activism: Ebony Magazine and the Civil Rights Movement
<p>In the fight for justice, equality, and true liberation, African American organizations and institutions have often acted as a voice for the African American community at large focusing on common issues and concerns. With the civil rights movement being broadcast across the world, there was no …
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An Historical Analysis of the Development of Charter School Legislation in Virginia
Understanding the evolution of charter school legislation and the expectations of legislators adopting this legislation is important to school boards and school administrators in Virginia. The purpose of this research project was to delineate the historical development of charter school legislation …
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Mobilizing jazz communities: the dynamic use of jazz as a political resource in the Black Liberation Struggle, 1925-1965
… Communities” presents a historical examination of the role culture has played in developing and sustaining African American socio-political movements during the twentieth century, and has a particular emphasis on the New Negro and Civil Rights Movements. Informed by the perspectives of social …
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"We cleared the land with our own hands": space and place in African American community building and freedom struggles in the Missouri Bootheel, 1890-1968"
… and Black freedom struggles has demonstrated the centrality of the Black working class to social, political, and economic transformations in the twentieth-century rural South. Yet, our understanding of how African Americans actively engaged in power struggles over space, and the nature of …